Improvement in door-pulls



A. D. JUDD.

Dear-PuHs.

N0.153,49()-, Patent edjuly 28,1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT D. JUDD, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN DOOR-PULLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 153,490, dated July 28,1874; application filed 4 January 30, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I. ALBERT D. JUDD, of New Haven, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented an Improvement in Handlesfor Doors, of which the following is a specification:

Handles connected with a metal plate, sometimes called .door-pulls, haveusually been made with screws or rivets connecting the ends of thehandle to the plate, but with cast iron a separate rivet or screw isnecessary.

The object of my invention is to connect the handle to the plate byinterlocking lips that are retained in contact by the attach in gscrews,so that the parts can be cast and finished up separately and puttogether immediately before use. This effects saving in the manufacture, lessens the space occupied in transportation, and allows the partsto be put together with the handle inclining in either direction fromthe plate to suit a right or left hand door.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is an elevation of the back of the plate andhandle, and Fig. 2 is a sectional plan through the interlocking lip.

The handle a is upon. the arms I), that Will usually be curved orinclined, as shown, and the handle may be used either end upward, sothat the arms I) will extend off either one way or the other, to suitthe door to which the handle is applied. The shape, configuration, or

ornamentation of the handle (6, arms I), and also of the plate 0, may beof any desired character. In the plate 0 are the openings 6 e, of

a size to pass the projecting ends Mof the I might be at two sides andthe locking move- 4 ment be made in a diagonal. direction. Upon the armsb are flanges 1", that rest against the surface of the plate 0,- and inthese flanges are screw-holes s, and in the plate 0 are the holes a c,that are in such positions that the attachin g-screw will pass throughthe holes at either one side of the plate or the other, according to thedirection in which the handle is placed, and such screws prevent lateralmotion and retain the handle when locked to the plate. The holes shownat t receive the main attaching-screws of the handle-plate, and it willbe evident that rivets might be substituted for screws in the holes 8.

I claim as my invention- The handle a and arms I), in combination withthe plate c,interlocking lips 0, and flanges r, for the screws or theirequivalents, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

Signed by me this 23d day of January, A. D. 187 4.

A. D. J'U DD.

Witnesses:

JAMES BIRGE, DENNES TOBIN.

These locking-lips are at the side

